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I would like to hope that the memories of past lives that we have, thanks to the people who told us about them, will become in the near future the basis for scientific research, when they will be made public not as individual phenomena, but also as a general phenomenon testifying to the objective laws of Existence, reflected in the subjective experience of each person.

Unlike European civilization, in the East knowledge of reincarnation is generally accepted. That is why evidence of reincarnation belonging to people born in European culture is so valuable for us - Europeans. The Life Readings of Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945), the great clairvoyant healer whom Americans lovingly nicknamed the “sleeping prophet,” became precisely such phenomena at the beginning of the 20th century. By plunging himself into a trance, Casey could accurately tell the cause of his patient’s illness and methods of treating it. But over time, people began to turn to him who intuitively felt that the problems of their current lives lay in previous incarnations. Despite the fact that Cayce himself, being a Christian, did not believe in the doctrine of rebirth, he never refused to help people. Imagine his amazement when his very first “reading” on this topic completely confirmed that a person is born on earth not once, but many times; that there is a fair law of retribution, Karma, associated with a person’s accumulated experience in previous incarnations, and this same experience shapes his tasks for future lives. Casey's doubts were completely dispelled when several hundred such evidence accumulated, and among them - about his own past lives, which made it possible to answer many of the questions that personally worried Cayce.

Omm Seti during prayer in the temple of Seti two years before his death. Abydos. Egypt. January 2, 1979. Photo from the archive of Hanni el-Zeiny

Cayce’s “readings” (dedicated to the past lives of various people) often talk about the legendary era of Atlantis, now considered by many to be Plato’s fiction, just as Homer’s Troy once was. But, despite the skeptical ridicule of representatives of the scientific world, the zealous German “amateur” archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822 - 1890) found Troy, following a very simple hypothesis. He suggested that Homer's Iliad, which describes Troy, e literary fiction, and the description real historical events.

In her “readings,” Cayce, like Homer, gives a detailed description of not only the Atlantean Age and the Atlantean races, but also subsequent post-Atlantean cultures: in the Yucatan, in South and North America, in Egypt - and in other parts of the globe, which she also wrote about in her fundamental works, a hundred years earlier, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 - 1891) [“Isis Unveiled” Vol. 1; “The Secret Doctrine” T. 1-3].

Fortunately, today, confirmed by many archaeological finds (p. 80), Cayce’s “readings,” as well as the works of H. P. Blavatsky and E. I. Roerich on the topic of Karma and Reincarnation, allow us to understand what such the topic of reincarnation, or “pre-existence” - as Blavatsky calls it (, p. 326), cannot be omitted, but, on the contrary, must be discussed. And this is important because knowledge about reincarnation allows us not only to obtain confirmations regarding the past of humanity, but also, lost by European culture, they reveal the meaning of spiritual evolution for European civilization and the human spirit in general.

Undoubtedly, among the sea of ​​​​numerous pseudo-esoteric literature appearing in our time, it is difficult to find real evidence of the existence of rebirths (besides Cayce’s “readings”). Therefore, we want to talk about one such testimony belonging to the Englishwoman Dorothy Louise Eadie (1904 - 1981), known in the West and in Egypt as Omm Seti, which means “Mother Seti” in Arabic.

Dorothy at age 14. 1920 England. Photo from the archive of M. Tracy

Her story began in England, at the beginning of the 20th century, in the suburbs of London, in the city of Blackheath, where Dorothy’s family had their own home. She lived there with her parents. Dorothy Louise Eady was the only child in the family. She was born on January 16, 1904. Her mother, Caroline Mary Frost Eadie (1879 - 1945), was English. Father, Reuben Eadie (1879 - 1935), was half Irish. In his youth he worked as a magician, but by the time his daughter was born he had already become a tailor. Later, when Dorothy finished school, her father's keen interest in show business and natural entrepreneurial talent led him to create one of the first and largest cinemas in England.

One day, trouble happened in the Eady family. Their little daughter unexpectedly fell from the stairs leading to the second floor of the house. The arriving doctor confirmed the girl’s death with deep regret. The dejected father had to go with a doctor to get a death certificate and a nurse to wash his daughter's body. But when they returned, both the doctor and the father were amazed to find that the girl was alive and well, and covered in chocolate, sitting on the bed, playing carefree.

This happened in 1907, when Dorothy Louise Eady (Homme Sety) was only three years old, but despite her young age, her shock was so profound that it triggered memories of one of her past lives. As later confirmed by many archaeological evidence, these memories were associated with her life in Ancient Egypt, during the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom era (1550 - 1186 BC), when she was a young priestess of the goddess Isis in the Temple of Abydos and was personally acquainted with the father of Ramesses the Great - King Seti I, who ruled Egypt in the period 1294 - 1279 BC. e.

Memories of a past life began to come to young Dorothy, first in recurring dreams with the same plot: a beautiful building with columns, next to which there was a garden, and in its depths - a rectangular lotus lake. At the same time, the girl developed a feeling of deep longing for an unknown “home”: “Often the parents to whom Dorothy told about her dream found their daughter either in the room or in the kitchen, crying for no reason. “Why do you cry all the time?” - the mother was worried. But little Dorothy invariably answered: “I want to go home.” “Silly, you’re already home - this is your home,” Miss Eadie tried to convince Dorothy, not understanding. But Dorothy continued to cry, begging to be allowed to go home. A few months later, the parents decided to ask: “Dorothy, where is your home?” But Dorothy, unfortunately, only answered: “I don’t know, but I want to go there”” (p. 12).

The most unusual biography of the “guardian of Egyptology” in the history of science: The mysterious reincarnation of Omm Seti, the woman who proved that she lived in Ancient Egypt.

One day, Dorothy Eadie, also known as Omm Seti, said that in a past life, when her name was Bentreshit, the ancient Egyptian temple of Seti was surrounded by a beautiful garden, which scientists did not yet know about at that time.
But one day archaeologists discovered the incredible - that same garden, or rather, stumps and stone channels for irrigation, but this was more than enough. And not just somewhere in Abydos, but in the very place that Dorothy pointed to...
Do you believe in reincarnation? Millions of people around the globe firmly believe that it exists. Interestingly, the world is full of cases where people accurately remember their past life. Often young children tell stories about who they were in their previous incarnation. Many parents perceive this as just another manifestation of children's imagination. But it is not so. Some stories are incredibly believable, and today's article presents one of them.
The story of Dorothy Eady is one of the most fascinating tales of reincarnation. This is the story of a woman who, thousands of years ago, in her past life, was a priestess and lover of the pharaoh.

Dorothy was born in 1904 in a suburb of London. At the age of three, the girl had an accident: she fell from a high ladder and hit her head hard. The doctor, whom the parents called, could do nothing to console them. In his opinion, it was impossible to save the child. An hour later, the doctor brought a nurse and brought a death certificate form. But a miracle happened: the little girl came to her senses and after a while she was running around the house as if nothing had happened.

After the incident, the child seemed to be replaced: she began to dream of Ancient Egypt. The girl began asking her parents to take her home to Egypt, thousands of miles from London. She had strange visions. Entering a trance state for half an hour and swaying from side to side with her eyes closed, the girl did not notice anything around her. She was convinced that she remembered her past life and that there, in another time, she lived across the sea in the land of the pharaohs. Moreover, Dorothy constantly recounted amazing details of her life as an Egyptian priestess. That woman's name was Bentreshit. She lived and served at the court of Pharaoh Seti.

One day the girl saw old images of the ancient Temple of Seti. Looking at them, Dorothy stated that she had already been there and that this place was her home. She still could not understand where the garden that surrounded the temple on all sides had gone. And she was convinced that thousands of years ago there were many trees there.

The parents almost went crazy because of such radical changes in their daughter's behavior. And finally, we decided to take our four-year-old child to the British Museum. After that it only got worse. Upon entering the Egyptian hall, the child became even more strange. She began running around the statues, kissing the feet of the giant marble statues of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. Finally, the girl found a glass sarcophagus with a mummy and settled right on it, refusing to go further. The parents tried to take the child away from this place, but she suddenly shouted in a strange, changed voice: “Leave me, these are my people!” The parents must have been terrified.

At the age of fifteen, Dorothy began studying Egyptian history. And then Pharaoh Seti I began to come to her in a dream. According to the woman’s recollections, one night she woke up from the feeling that something heavy was pressing on her chest. She opened her eyes and met the gaze of the pharaoh. He did not forget her even after three thousand years. “I was amazed and at the same time incredibly happy,” she would write later. “It was a feeling of fulfillment of a long-cherished desire. And then he tore my nightgown from collar to hem.”

From these meetings in lucid dreams, her memories of her past life became even more vivid. Her centuries-old memory was gradually returning to her. The dreams were supplemented by knowledge gained from books, and, in the end, Dorothy decided to renounce Christianity and instead accept the old polytheistic religion of Ancient Egypt.

Dorothy had an incredible ability to study ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. She spent a lot of time at the British Museum, impressing her teachers. And to all their questions about this she answered that she had not started learning a new language, but was only gradually remembering everything that she had forgotten a long time ago.

In 1932, together with her husband, the Egyptian student Imam Abdel Magid, whom she met in England, Dorothy moved to live in Egypt. When she first set foot on this earth, the first thing she did was kneel down and kiss the soil under her feet, saying that she was finally at home. She came to stay forever.

Soon the young woman gave birth to a son, whom, of course, she named Seti. That is why her own middle name became Omm Seti, which translated from Egyptian means “mother of Seti.”

For many years, Dorothy tried very hard to remember her past life, piece by piece piecing together a thousand-year-old puzzle - the fate of Bentreshit. The spirit of Gor-Ra helped her decipher all the secrets. From him the woman learned that the Egyptian Bentreshit had been raised from the age of three in the Temple of Seti in Abydos. She was left near the temple by her father, a soldier who could not take care of the child. The girl's mother, a fruit seller, died early.

During her life in the temple of Abydos, she became a priestess and "sacred virgin", taking a vow of celibacy. There, a 14-year-old girl first met the living embodiment of God - Pharaoh Seti I, who at that time was 53 years old. They fell in love with each other. Having become the pharaoh's mistress, Bentreshit became pregnant.

Unfortunately, happy love very often has a tragic ending. Soon after she found out about her pregnancy, the high priest of the temple told Bentreshit that an unborn child was a great crime against the goddess Isis, and that the child would cause her anger, and the pharaoh would have a lot of trouble from it.

I found two versions of what happened next on the Internet. According to the first, beside herself with grief and despair, the pregnant Bentreshit committed suicide. The second says that the young woman gave birth to a son for the pharaoh, but the happiness of the lovers was short-lived. Seti I died while hunting crocodiles. And after that, the priests took out all their anger on the innocent victim: they killed the pharaoh’s little son, considering him the culprit of all the troubles, and threw the woman into a dungeon, where she died of disease...

Let's go back to our time. In 1956, Dorothy managed to fulfill her dream. After separating from her husband, she moved to Abydos and began helping archaeologists in their research. She really wanted not so much to test her knowledge as to make sure that the stories she told were not mere fiction. After all, if Dorothy lived on this earth thousands of years ago, then she certainly must have remembered some important details.

One day, Dorothy went to the temple of Seti to see the chief inspector of the antiquities department, who, knowing about the history of Omm Seti, decided to test her knowledge and make sure of the truthfulness or untruthfulness of her words. He really wanted to prove that the woman was lying. In complete darkness, Dorothy was led to a certain wall painting in the temple. The boss asked her to describe the picture according to her memories. Her answer amazed everyone present.

What is noteworthy is that the temple paintings and symbols that Dorothy spoke about with such confidence were not known. That is, she could not read about them anywhere. Information about them was not published even in Egypt itself. Dorothy not only answered all the questions correctly, but also told the head of the department many interesting things that the researchers were able to discover only later - precisely thanks to her stories.

Dorothy's story became even more famous when she began helping during excavations and research on ancient Egyptian monuments. The woman translated the most complex works of art - texts that were too tough for even seasoned archaeologists and linguists. Her knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language greatly helped the scientists excavating at Abydos.

When it came to ancient Egyptian history, many researchers paid close attention to Omm Seti's stories. One of them is a world-famous scientist, British Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen. The researcher did not openly admit this, probably for fear of being booed in the scientific community. However, a number of written sources contain indirect evidence that the scientist listened to Dorothy's words.

As strange as it may sound, when Nicholas Reeves began searching for the lost tomb of Queen Nefertiti, he also took into account her visions. According to Idi, the queen’s tomb is located in the Valley of the Kings:
“One day I asked His Majesty where this grave was, and he said to me: “Why do you need to know this?” I replied that I wanted this place to be excavated. And he said, “No, you shouldn’t. We don’t want anything else to become known about this family.” But he told me the approximate location. She rests in the Valley of the Kings, very close to the tomb of Tutankhamun. But in such a place that no one can guess that this is the queen’s grave. Apparently, that’s the only reason she’s still intact” (laughs).

Bentreshit remembered the son of Seti I, the future pharaoh Ramses. Every time Dorothy came to the temple, she heard his footsteps - a restless boy running along the corridors.

Every morning Dorothy went to the temple to pray. On the birthdays of Isis and Osiris, she held meal ceremonies, when beer, wine and bread were brought to the temple - just as thousands of years ago.

“Magic in Ancient Egypt was elevated to the rank of science,” she wrote. “It was real magic.” And she worked."

It should not be assumed that Dorothy's entire contribution consisted of constant reminiscences and work as a tour guide. She is the author and co-author of many publications on the history of Ancient Egypt. Contemporaries noted her professional and business qualities. The activities of the Omm Network have been highly praised by the British and Egyptian authorities. In particular, the British Archaeological Society awarded her a pension, and the president of her beloved country awarded her the Order of Merit for Egypt. She was respected by everyone - from scientists to tourists and local residents. “Guardian Angel of Egyptology” - that’s what Dorothy Eadie was called.

Dorothy died on April 21, 1981. She was buried near the Temple of Seti at Abydos. In addition to her scientific works, Omm Sethi left behind diaries, which she kept from school until the end of her life. Some of them have not yet been published... Only Dorothy’s colleague and close friend, Dr. Hanni el-Zaini, to whom Mrs. Magid bequeathed her notes, knows what else is hidden in the pages yellowed by time.

When Mr and Mrs Eadie took their four-year-old daughter on an excursion to the British Museum one day in 1908, they could not have imagined the consequences it would lead to. What scared them most was the prospect of traveling through the museum halls with a tired and capricious child. At first, little Dorothy behaved like this, but only until they approached the Egyptian exhibit, where she suddenly sprang into action, displaying the most amazing behavior. She began to run around like crazy and kiss the feet of the statues, and then settled down next to the mummy in a glass box and refused to move. Her parents moved to another room and returned half an hour later, finding her in exactly the same position. Mrs. Eady bent down to take the child in her arms, but Dorothy literally stuck to the glass and screamed in a hoarse, unrecognizable voice: “Leave me here, these are my people.” Dorothy's strange behavior began a year ago, when an incident happened to her that she could not forget:

“When I was three years old, I fell down a high flight of stairs and lost consciousness. They called the doctor; he examined me carefully and declared that I was dead. About an hour later he returned with my death certificate and a nurse to “carry out the body,” but to his amazement, the “body” was alive, well, and playing as if nothing had happened!”

After falling down the stairs, Dorothy began to have a recurring dream about a large building with columns and a garden with trees, fruits and flowers. In addition, she developed depression: she often sobbed bitterly for no apparent reason and explained to her parents that she wanted to go home. When the girl was told that she was at home, she denied it, but could not say where her real home was. It was only during a fateful visit to the British Museum that the first signs of her lifelong conviction that she belonged to the Egyptian civilization began to appear.

Dorothy's obsession was confirmed a few months after the incident at the museum when her father brought home a volume of a children's encyclopedia. There were several photographs and drawings from the life of Ancient Egypt that completely fascinated her. Dorothy was particularly interested in a photograph of the famous Rosetta Stone (the trilingual text that allowed Egyptian hieroglyphs to be deciphered for the first time) and spent hours looking at it with a magnifying glass. To her mother's amazement and horror, she announced that she knew the language, but had simply forgotten it.

When Dorothy was seven years old, a recurring dream about a large building with pillars took on a new meaning for her. The impetus for this was a photograph in a magazine with the caption “Temple of Seti I at Abydos.” This photo completely fascinated the girl. “This is my home, this is where I lived,” she shouted joyfully, turning to her father. But the joy immediately gave way to deep sadness: “But why is everything broken here? And where is the garden? Her father told her not to say anything stupid: Dorothy could not see this building, which was very far away and was built thousands of years ago. Besides, there are no gardens in the desert.

Forty-five years later, Dorothy Eady, an employee of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, went to work in Abydos and settled in a small house near the Temple of Seti. As far as she knew, she was "at home" and remained in her beloved Abydos from 1956 until her death in April 1981. By that time, she had become known throughout the world as Omm Seti, which meant “mother of Seti.” That was the name of her son, who was half Egyptian. As for the garden she saw in her dream, archaeologists eventually found it exactly where she said it would be, on the south side of the temple.

The temptation of Egypt

Dorothy Eady was certainly one of the most unusual personalities of the 20th century. Everyone who met her was fascinated by her: she was an artistic, flighty, fearless, outspoken and completely eccentric woman. No matter how we feel about her conviction that she is the new earthly incarnation of the ancient Egyptian, her life was already so colorful and romantic that few can compare with her.

As a teenager, Dorothy Eadie began studying Egyptology in earnest. Sir Ernest Wallis Budge, Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum and one of the pioneers in the field of Egyptology, took her under his wing and taught her Egyptian writing during his free hours from school.

Meanwhile, strange dreams and bouts of sleepwalking continued.

Dorothy spent her youth with her family in Plymouth on the south coast of England, where her father opened a cinema. She continued to read voraciously any literature related to Ancient Egypt, studied Egyptian paintings at the local art school, and attended meetings of a group of people interested in reincarnation - this was her first opportunity to openly express her belief that she had once lived in Ancient Egypt. But these meetings soon ceased to satisfy her. When one of those present suggested that she could have had several incarnations, including Joan of Arc, her reaction was immediate and immediate: “Why the hell do you think so?” She tried to join a group of local spiritualists who suggested that instead of being reincarnated, she actually died when she fell down the stairs and was then possessed by a discarnate ancient spirit, but this explanation did not seem to satisfy her either.

Dorothy took her first real step towards achieving her dream at the age of twenty-seven, when, against her parents' wishes, she went to London and took a job at an Egyptian community magazine. She drew political cartoons and wrote articles in support of Egyptian independence from Britain. In the House of Commons she met a handsome young Egyptian, Imam Abdel Magid, and fell in love with him. Two years later, she accepted his proposal to marry. Soon after, in 1933, she packed her belongings and sailed to Egypt, causing further estrangement from her parents. Almost immediately upon arrival, she became Mrs. Abdel Magid.

Mother of the Network

Soon after the wedding, it became clear that Dorothy had simply exchanged her long-suffering parents for her long-suffering husband. The Imam was passionate about modernizing Egypt—he worked in the field of Egyptian education—while Dorothy was only interested in the country's distant past. They quickly disagreed on the choice of place to live: the Imam wanted to live in the center of modern Cairo, and Dorothy in the suburbs, from where one could see the pyramids.

Despite family problems, Mr. and Mrs. Magid soon had a child. It was a boy who, at Dorothy's insistence and against her husband's wishes, was named Seti in honor of the famous pharaoh who reigned at the beginning of the 19th Dynasty (about 1300 BC according to the generally accepted dating system). Thereafter, following the polite Egyptian custom of not calling women by name, Dorothy Eadie became known as "Omm Seti."

However, the appearance of little Seti did not improve relations in the family. Unfortunately, Dorothy was interested in issues that went far beyond her family responsibilities. In the second year of their married life, the Imam was often awakened at night by his wife, who was sitting at a table by the window and writing hieroglyphs on paper in the light of the moon. Subsequently, Omm Seti described her state on those nights as “a strange half-conscious existence, as if I was under a spell, neither in a dream nor in reality.” She heard a voice in her head slowly dictating Egyptian words to her. This phenomenon is known to mediums as “automatic writing.” These nightly sessions continued for about a year, and Omm Seti eventually filled about 70 pages of hieroglyphs, which she pieced together and transcribed. The words that sounded in her head were dictated by a spirit named Hor-Pa and described her previous life in Egypt.

Mysterious writings, which Omm Seti said were “true because of the things I remember,” said that in her previous life she was an Egyptian girl named Bentreshut. She was born into a poor family and was sent to the temple at Kom el-Sultan, north of the Temple of Seti (then just beginning construction), to be trained as a priestess. At the age of twelve, High Priest Antef asked her if she wanted to go out into the world and get married or stay in the temple. Unfamiliar with the outside world, Bentreshut decided to stay in the temple and took a vow of virginity. She then underwent rigorous training that allowed her to take part in dramatic temple rituals that reenacted the death and rebirth of the great Osiris.

Omm Seti kept secret for many years the end of the story, in which Bentreshut met Pharaoh Seti in the garden of his new temple. In fact, she did not tell her husband anything about the secret meaning of her nightly writings, which greatly disturbed him. The Imam's father came to stay with the couple and one night ran out of the house, shouting that he saw "Pharaoh sitting on Omm Seti's bed." After three years of married life, the Imam left for Iran, where he received a post in the Ministry of Education. Immediately after her husband's departure, Omm Seti moved with her son closer to the Great Pyramids of Giza (at first they lived in a tent) and got a job as a draftswoman in the Egyptian Department of Antiquities. She became the first woman to serve in this institution.

Over the next twenty years, she assisted two leading Egyptologists, Selim Hasan and Ahmed Fakhri, in their work excavating and describing the pyramids of the Giza Plateau and Dashur. Well trained at art school, Omm Sethi was an accomplished draftswoman and also provided invaluable editorial support, proofreading or even rewriting the English articles and progress reports compiled by Hassan and Fakhri. During those years she made significant contributions to Egyptology. Dr. William Kelly Simpson, professor of Egyptology at Yale University, was deeply impressed by her knowledge: “Some people know the Egyptian language inside and out, but do not feel the spirit of Egyptian art; others know Egyptian art well, but are not familiar with the language. Dorothy Eadie knew both.”

Abydos

Although Omm Seti was now in the land she loved, strangely enough, she did not go straight to Abydos, but waited nineteen years before making her first visit. “I had only one goal in life,” she said, “to go to Abydos, to live in Abydos and to be buried in Abydos. However, something beyond my strength stopped me from visiting Abydos.” When she finally went there for a short visit in 1952, she left her suitcase at the Department of Antiquities hotel and went straight to the Temple of Seti, where she spent the entire night burning incense and praising the gods. She returned there again in 1954 for two weeks, and then spent several months begging her superiors to find her a place to work in Abydos. Her requests were listened to very reluctantly; Abydos was then a tiny village of mud-brick houses with no running water or electricity, where no one spoke a word of English. Not surprisingly, officials from the Department of Antiquities did not consider this an appropriate place for a single woman, especially a foreigner. In 1956, at the end of Fakhri's project in Dashur, the department finally agreed and gave her a job in Abydos, sketching temple bas-reliefs for two dollars a day. Since young Sethi had now gone to live with her father in Kuwait, she was free to go wherever she wanted. Apart from a few short visits to nearby places, she remained in Abydos for the rest of her life. Soon after her arrival in Abydos, Omm Seti began archaeological work and discovered the remains of the garden at the temple of Seti - the same garden that she had dreamed of all her life.

Omm Seti lived in a small peasant house with many animals: cats, a goose, a donkey (nicknamed Idi Amin) and even local snakes. She offered daily prayer at a nearby temple and openly worshiped the ancient Egyptian gods, to the amazement of local residents and tourists. At first, the peasants treated her with great wariness, almost as if she were a dangerous witch. But when they realized that they could not humiliate or intimidate her, their feelings gave way to admiration, and then friendship.

As a local expert on the ancient history of Abydos, Omm Seti has become a real attraction for tourists. Everyone who came there tried to meet and talk with her and, if they were lucky (or if they showed enough sincere interest), took a tour of the temple and its surroundings, invariably peppered with her irreverent and sometimes obscene jokes.

She never tried to recruit students or force her views on anyone. Dr Harry James, former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, said: "Her faith was very practical and completely free from occult irrationality." This was true, but only to a certain extent. The ancient Egyptian belief system, like most religions, was far from “rational” as understood by modern Western science. In fact, Omm Seti unconditionally believed in the effectiveness of ancient Egyptian magic. She demonstrated an unusually developed sensory connection with animals and claimed that she could communicate with them. She spoke of her personal experience in charming snakes, even cobras - at least the snakes had never bitten her. Omm Seti also believed that the powers of the Egyptian gods still operated in their sacred places, and noted with apparent pride that local Egyptian women, who were nominally Muslim, would come to touch the feet of the carved statue of the goddess Isis in the temple if they were troubled by thoughts of infertility. She made no secret of the beliefs that were the driving force of her life. Without a shadow of a doubt, Omm Seti believed that she was the new incarnation of an Egyptian girl of low birth who lived and worked in the temple of Abydos during the reign of Pharaoh Seti. It's hard to say how well this fits with the Egyptian worldview; We have no written evidence of the ancient Egyptians' belief in reincarnation.

No one who met her doubted her sincerity or the depth of her conviction. She knew hundreds of Egyptologists and worked closely with some of the best experts in the field. No one could say a bad word about her or call her a dreamer. Egyptology is generally a very conservative discipline, but professionals calmly tolerated the presence of Omm Seti and accepted her almost as one of their colleagues, albeit a rather unusual one.

Lover Network

But Omm Seti kept her deepest beliefs completely secret, since they were of a deeply personal nature. She confided them to her diary and shared them in detail with only one of her friends and confidantes, Dr. Hanni El-Zeiny.

As a research chemist and ardent lover of Egyptian antiquities, Dr. El-Zeiny met Omm Seti in the Temple of Abydos about 9 months after she began living there. They eventually became fast friends and later became colleagues. Together they spent 12 years researching and compiling a number of publications, including Abydos: Holy City of Ancient Egypt, for which El-Zeiny took photographs.

Early in their acquaintance, El Zeini decided to test Omm Seti's claim that she had predicted the location of the temple garden. He began to question the foreman in charge of the workers from the local village, who immediately led El-Zeiny to the place where the garden was discovered. Until now, traces of irrigation canals could be seen there; the tree stumps were again covered with sand, so the foreman quickly cleared a few of them and demonstrated them. A few months later, El Zeini met with the inspector from the Department of Antiquities in charge of Seti's temple and questioned him about Omm Seti's role in the discovery of the temple garden. The inspector replied:

“We were able to discover these tree roots only thanks to her, and she provided invaluable assistance in opening the tunnel built under the northern part of the temple... She is not such a good “draftsman”, but she has a wonderful sixth sense of the terrain she walks through, and she literally amazed me with her deep knowledge of the temple and its surroundings... I will take the liberty to say that she would be indispensable for any archaeological mission undertaking serious work in the Abydos area.”

From then on, El Zeini never again doubted Omm Seti's sincerity. After mutual trust was established between them, El Zeini learned the most incredible part of her story.

According to Omm Seti, Pharaoh Seti fell in love with Bentreshut at the age of fourteen when he met her in the temple garden. Their relationship was dangerous, since according to the laws of the temple she had to remain a virgin. She became pregnant, and the priests forced her to admit that she had a lover, threatening her with death for her crime. Out of fear of possible torture, Bentreshut committed suicide to protect her lover's good name. When Seti returned for her, he was heartbroken and vowed to never forget her.

This is where the story gets truly incredible. Omm Seti claimed that when she turned fourteen in her current life, Pharaoh Seti kept his promise and "returned" to her. As she explained to El-Zeiny almost fifty years later, that night she woke up with the feeling of something pressing on her chest. Opening her eyes, she saw Seti's mummified face looking at her and placing his hands on her shoulders. “I was amazed and shocked, but immensely happy... It was a feeling of fulfillment of a long-standing, cherished desire... And then he tore my nightgown from collar to hem.”

The next visit occurred when Omm Sethi moved to Cairo. Seti appeared to her again, this time not in the form of a mummy, but as a handsome man aged fifty. The visits continued; Omm Seti and her astral lover spent one night after another together. As if these statements weren't eccentric enough in themselves, Omm Seti explained that the frequency and number of Seti's visits was determined by a strict moral code. Seti could only return from the afterlife because he had special permission from the Amentet council of the Egyptian Underworld, and under their careful supervision, lovers had to follow strict rules. Thus, when Sethi visited her as a married woman, their meetings were purely platonic. However, after the divorce, the situation changed and Seti informed her that he intended to marry her when she joined him in Amentet.

It was this love affair with the ghostly pharaoh, according to Omm Seti, that was the true reason for the long delay in her “return” to Abydos. Returning to Abydos, she had to again play the role of priestess and remain a virgin. And this time Omm Seti was determined to follow the rule. When she dies, her previous crime will be forgiven, and she and Seti can be together for eternity.

In the last years of her life, Omm Seti kept records of her romantic encounters with the pharaoh in a secret diary, begun at the request of El Zeini.

Supernatural knowledge

At first glance, Omm Seti's narrative, despite all its touching and romantic nature, seems strained and absurd beyond all measure. However, this absurdity itself makes us think. Could a woman of her intelligence and reputation have invented such a bizarre tale, complete with all sorts of details and spanning a lifetime? Judging by the memoirs of contemporaries, Omm Seti was an absolutely trustworthy woman, and no one ever accused her of lying.

So she was just crazy? Omm Sethi herself considered this possibility, admitting that falling down the stairs at an early age could “knock some screw out of your head.” However, in all other respects, including the frank statement just quoted, her personality seemed completely balanced. Journalist Jonathan Cott, who wrote the only biography of Omm Sethi, discussed her mental state with a number of experts. One psychiatrist specializing in young people suggested that if a particular area in her brain had been damaged during the fall, it could have resulted in a “long-term characterological shift”; in other words, she was left with a persistent feeling of the alienness of her surroundings. The obsession with Egypt, in this case, was a secondary effect.

However, the simple conclusion of brain damage hardly explains the history of Omm Seti. She did not have any "psychological problems", even taking into account her obsessive desire to live in Egypt. This desire simply led to her further career, which was successful in its own way, especially considering that she was a foreigner working alone in an Islamic country. When Jonathan Cott asked Michael Gruber, a prominent New York psychologist, to evaluate Omm Seti's history, he concluded that while she lived in her parallel reality, it did not impair her ability to function in the everyday world—in fact, it enriched her. her ordinary life. In short, she did not need therapy or psychiatric help of any kind.

Someone once remarked about the British poet and seer William Blake (1757–1827) that although he was a little “touched,” it was this touch from above that allowed his inner light to come out. Likewise, there is no point in speculating whether Omm Seti was a little crazy; it is much better to judge her experience and insight on its merits.

After all, isn't it our own - or rather Western - prejudices about reincarnation that make her story seem so ridiculous? Her example fits perfectly with the most well-studied cases of reincarnation, where children, usually between the ages of two and four, begin to “remember” events that did not happen to them (see “Introduction” to this section). Dorothy Eady was three years old when she had an accident and her life took a sharp turn. If reincarnation as such did not take place, then perhaps Omm Seti received information from the past in some other way? Could it be that the most incredible part of her experiences, including her love affair with the long-dead Pharaoh Seti, were caused by her unusually vivid and detailed dreams that she could not interpret or otherwise explain? Or perhaps her life experience was somewhat similar to that of the archaeologist Bligh Bond, who claimed that the “voices” of friendly ghosts helped him during excavations at Glastonbury (see “The Commonwealth of Avalon” later in this section).

Regardless of our guesses, what can we conclude about Omm Seti's mysterious knowledge of Ancient Egypt? It has never occurred to anyone to make a detailed list of her statements and note those points that were later confirmed or refuted. Her most famous claim about the existence of a garden at the temple at Abydos loses much of its charm when we remember that almost all Egyptian temples had gardens. However, a four-year-old child in 1908 - when Egyptology itself was in its infancy - could hardly know anything about it. Further, we have the testimony of Dr. El Zeini, who questioned the workers and specialists who participated in the opening of the garden at Abydos: Omm Seti not only determined its location with absolute accuracy, but also led them to a tunnel under the northern part of the temple. Not a single Egyptologist questioned her “sixth sense” about this place. In addition, she repeatedly said that under the temple there was a secret chamber with a library of historical and religious works. If it is discovered, it will become a real archaeological sensation, in comparison with which the tomb of Tutankhamun will seem like a trifle. Unfortunately, no one has yet taken advantage of her hint to conduct the appropriate searches.

Unlike Omm Seti's predictions about the location of the garden and tunnel (which came from her "own" memories), the references to the secret library seem to be based primarily on the content of her conversations with the spirit of Pharaoh Seti. Excerpts from these conversations, recorded in her secret diary, are published in Cott's biography, and, no matter how you look at them, they are fascinating reading. We get to see Omm Set's views on a wide range of issues, from sexual morality to the possibility of space travel, which she somehow considers "evil" (ironically, SETI, an acronym for the scientific program for the search for extraterrestrial life, sounds exactly like her Name).

Among the more specific, from an archaeological point of view, is the statement of Pharaoh Seti that he did not build the Osirion temple in Abydos, which was allegedly built long before his birth. Seti also said that the Sphinx was created by the god Horus and was born long before the era of Pharaoh Khafre (about 2350 BC), who, as is commonly believed, ordered its construction. Some older Egyptologists shared both of these opinions, appearing in a number of popular science books. Many modern Egyptologists agree that the face of the Sphinx is not a likeness of Khafre (as was once thought), and prefer to describe it as a statue of Horus in the role of a solar deity. However, the hypothesis that the Sphinx could have been built before the reign of Khafre is still hotly debated (see “The Riddle of the Sphinx” in the “Marvels of Architecture” section).

Therefore, despite their appeal, many of Omm Seti's important statements regarding Egyptian history still remain largely unconfirmed. Until her personal diaries are published in full, it is impossible to create an accurate "score list" of their authenticity. Such an analysis could be an interesting topic, for example, for a dissertation by a scientist specializing in both psychology and history; as a result, we would finally be able to get a complete picture of the Egyptological ideas of Omm Seti. But until then, unfortunately, we are left with only a series of insightful guesses about Egyptian customs and readings of texts, as well as confirmation of her predictions about the temple garden and the tunnel at Abydos.

It is a pity that such an outstanding woman as Omm Sethi has never been examined by a parapsychologist. We have only a few pieces of evidence, which are rather anecdotal. Omm Sethi told the story of how, on one of her first visits to Abydos, the Chief Inspector of the Department of Antiquities and two of his colleagues decided to put her knowledge of the temple to the test. According to her, it happened at night, and the archaeologists, unlike her, had torches. Whatever part of the huge complex they named - and at that time the temple had not yet been fully explored and there was no exact plan - she could run there in the dark without making a single wrong turn or falling into a hole.

Unfortunately, we have no independent confirmation of this peculiar test; no one questioned the archaeologists in question, and the incident is known only from the recollections of Omm Seti. In addition, by her own admission, by that time she had already visited the temple once. That evening, when Omm Seti first arrived in Abydos, she went straight to the temple unaccompanied. How much did she learn or could she learn about the structure of the temple during this first night visit?

False memories?

Many people have "discovered" that they were Egyptian in a previous life, through dreams, lucid memories, or regression under hypnosis. But none of them managed to build such a bright and convincing picture as Omm Seti. The power of her words and actions lies partly in her absolute and boundless belief that she “belonged” in Egypt. All this is confirmed by the narration of strange events from her childhood and numerous anecdotes of her later life, which as a whole create a very impressive impression - for example, if you read them as they are presented in the biography written by Jonathan Cott.

However, it should be noted that the only evidence of the most important memories of her childhood comes from Omm Seti herself. It is now too late to ask people who knew her in those years. What about the doctor and nurse who pronounced her “dead” at the age of three? We cannot refer to the words of this doctor. What about relatives and neighbors who may have known about the tragedy, witnessed or heard from her parents about the strange behavior of the girl in the British Museum? Unfortunately, none of them left any records, diaries or interviews reflecting their point of view on these events. The same applies to her life in Egypt, including a tranche-like state in which she conducted “automatic writing” sessions, writing down the events of her past life in hieroglyphs. Even the story about her father-in-law, who ran out of the house screaming because he saw the “ghost of Pharaoh,” cannot be confirmed. Ultimately we have to take Omm Seti's word for it in all these cases.

Skeptics are free to doubt the origins of her memories of "death" and the incident at the British Museum. She never clarified whether these were her own memories or whether she was retelling her parents' memories. In any case, memories can be distorted, as we can see from our own experience and as is clear from the results of recent research into “false memory syndrome.” It is now well known that people can genuinely "remember" things from childhood abuse to alien abductions that never actually happened.

We are not suggesting that Omm Seti invented all the memories and experiences she described. There is no denying the depth of her knowledge about Ancient Egypt. One way or another, she had a number of revelations about the life, literature and archeology of Ancient Egypt. We cannot speak with certainty only about the method by which she received information. No man, European or Egyptian, was so intimately acquainted with ancient Abydos as Omm Seti, and it is doubtful whether this will ever happen again.

With all due respect to Omm Seti, Kenneth Kitchen, professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and an expert on the family of Pharaoh Seti (19th Dynasty), drew attention to this obvious problem:

“Omm Seti came to all sorts of perfectly logical conclusions about the actual objective material of Seti's temple. Perhaps these conclusions coincided with her own premonitions - after all, she spent more time there than all other archaeologists combined ... and it paid off. Therefore, even with a minimum of guesswork and interpretation, she was able to make many quiet, unnoticeable observations. What can we say about the past life... This alone was quite enough!

Other Egyptologists who met her were more moved, or rather puzzled, by her story. Dr. James P. Allen, former head of the American Research Center in Egypt, recalls:

“There was nothing of a dreamer about her... Omm Seti really believed in all this madness. Her faith was so strong that it captured you and made you question your own sense of reality.”

Perhaps one day future archaeological discoveries will provide further confirmation of what Omm Seti said about Ancient Egypt. If someday a magnificent library is discovered under the temple of Seti, then her statements will, of course, appear in a completely different light. However, even then we will not be able to determine the reason for her revelations. Were they based on perfect knowledge of Abydos, as Kitchen suggests, or were they truly supernatural in nature? Was this a reincarnation, as Omm Seti herself thought, or did she receive “imprints” of the past in some way incomprehensible to her, and then interpret them to the best of her abilities? Or was all this, literally, just an amazing dream?

Alas, all chances of more or less fully answering these questions disappeared with the death of Dorothy Eadie. Omm Seti will forever remain a mystery. One can only hope that wherever she is now - even in Amentet, the Egyptian afterlife where she hoped to go after death - she looks at this situation with a knowing smile.

Dorothy Eadie is one of the most unusual women of the 20th century. No, she did not fly into space, was not a Hollywood star, did not get involved in politics, and did not receive the Nobel Prize. Dorothy became famous in a completely different field. At the beginning of the last century, in conservative and inert Britain, she was not afraid to declare that she was... the new earthly incarnation of the ancient Egyptian priestess.
My people
This strange story began in 1907. Three-year-old Dorothy fell from a high staircase and lost consciousness. They called the doctor. He carefully examined the child and declared: the girl was hopeless. About an hour later the doctor came back with the death certificate and a nurse to “carry out the body.” But, to his surprise, the “body” was alive, healthy and running around as if nothing had happened! True, since then something strange began to happen to the girl. She regularly saw in her dreams the Egyptian temple and herself in it. And later visions began to overcome Dorothy in reality. At such moments, she closed her eyes and began to sway from side to side, and after half an hour she came out of the trance state. The parents tried their best to bring their daughter to her senses, but nothing helped.
The situation worsened after Mr and Mrs Eadie took their four-year-old daughter to the British Museum. Most of all, parents were worried about whether the child would be able to withstand a multi-hour trek through the museum halls. At first the girl was really capricious and crying, but as soon as she found herself in the Egyptian halls, not a trace remained of her former fatigue and bad mood. She began to run around the statues, kiss the feet of the marble giants, and to top it all off, she settled down next to the glass sarcophagus in which the mummy was located, and flatly refused to go further. When Mrs. Eady wanted to drag the girl out of her seat, she suddenly shouted to the whole hall in a completely alien - adult - voice: “Leave me here, these are my people!”
Native home
With age, the girl's obsession intensified. One day her father gave her a volume of a children's encyclopedia. There were several photographs and drawings from the life of Ancient Egypt; Dorothy looked at these pages, spellbound, for days on end. But most of all she was interested in photographs of the Rosetta Stone - a granite slab with three identical texts engraved on it, which provided the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian writing. The girl looked at it with a magnifying glass for hours and finally declared that she knew this language, she had simply forgotten it. Further more. One day Dorothy discovered a photograph in one of the magazines with the inscription: “Temple of Seti i in Abydos.” To the surprise and horror of her parents, she said that she had once lived in this temple, and near it there was a beautiful garden. The father tried to object to her: this building was built a thousand years ago, besides, there are no gardens in the desert. But the daughter firmly stood her ground: the temple was her home, it was he who constantly appeared in her dreams.
Since then, the girl has become a regular in the Egyptian rooms at the British Museum. There she met Ernest Wallis, head of the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquity, author of numerous books on Egyptology. Under the guidance of a scientist, Eady began to study hieroglyphs and the history of Ancient Egypt. Then the girl entered the history department of Oxford University. At the same time, she attended meetings of people interested in reincarnation. There she could finally openly express her belief that she had once lived in Ancient Egypt.
Modern and ancient
At the age of twenty-seven, Dorothy got a job at a socio-political magazine and began writing articles in support of Egyptian independence. Around this time, she met the Egyptian Imam Abdel Magid. And after two years of courtship, she accepted his proposal. In 1933, the girl packed her things and sailed to the country of her dreams.
A year later, the couple had a son, who, at the insistence of his mother and against the will of his father, was named Seti - in honor of the pharaoh who ruled the country about 1,300 BC. But the common child did not cement the relationship between the young people. “My husband was ultra-modern,” Dorothy once remarked, not without sarcasm, “and I was ultra-ancient.” The Imam wanted to settle in the center of Cairo, Dorothy - on the outskirts to see the pyramids. The Imam was interested in the life of modern Egypt, Dorothy - its glorious past. The husband was annoyed by his wife's nightly vigils, during which she wrote something in her diary. And for Dorothy this was very important: she claimed that in the light of the moon a voice whispered to her in Egyptian. These nightly sessions of automatic writing continued for about a year. Dorothy then put the messages together and deciphered them.
Pharaoh's love

Bas-relief from the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings - Goddess Hathor and Pharaoh Seti I
1303-1290 BC (19th Dynasty).

The revelations that Edie had revealed said that in her past life she came from a poor family and was called Bentreshut. As a girl, she was sent to the temple at Komel Sultan, north of the Temple of Seti, the construction of which was then just beginning, to be raised as a priestess. At the age of twelve, the high priest asked her if she wanted to return to the world and get married or stay in the temple. Bentreshut chose the latter and took a vow of virginity. Then she underwent special training that allowed her to participate in temple rituals. One day during a service, Pharaoh Seti the First noticed a beautiful young priestess in the temple and fell in love with her. And a few days later, despite the ban, he called her into his bedroom. Over time, the pharaoh and Bentreshut had a boy, whom Seti loved very much. The idyll lasted for several years until Seti the First died while hunting crocodiles. It was then that the priests took out all their anger on Bentreshut. They killed her son, and she herself was thrown into a dungeon, where she died of illness.

Mummy of Seti I. It is in this form, according to Dorothy,
Pharaoh first appeared to her in the middle of the night in a vision.

One day, Dorothy Eadie, also known as Omm Seti, said that in a past life, when her name was Bentreshit, the ancient Egyptian temple of Seti was surrounded by a beautiful garden, which scientists did not yet know about at that time.

But one day archaeologists discovered the incredible - that same garden, or rather, stumps and stone channels for irrigation, but this was more than enough. And not just somewhere in Abydos, but in the very place that Dorothy pointed to...

Do you believe in reincarnation? Millions of people around the globe firmly believe that it exists. Interestingly, the world is full of cases where people accurately remember their past life. Often young children tell stories about who they were in their previous incarnation. Many parents perceive this as just another manifestation of children's imagination. But it is not so. Some stories are incredibly believable, and today's article presents one of them.

The story of Dorothy Eadie is one of the most fascinating tales of reincarnation. This is the story of a woman who, thousands of years ago, in her past life, was a priestess and lover of the pharaoh.

Dorothy was born in 1904 in a suburb of London. At the age of three, the girl had an accident: she fell from a high ladder and hit her head hard. The doctor, whom the parents called, could do nothing to console them. In his opinion, it was impossible to save the child. An hour later, the doctor brought a nurse and brought a death certificate form. But a miracle happened: the little girl came to her senses and after a while she was running around the house as if nothing had happened.

After the incident, the child seemed to be replaced: she began to dream of Ancient Egypt. The girl began asking her parents to take her home to Egypt, thousands of miles from London. She had strange visions. Entering a trance state for half an hour and swaying from side to side with her eyes closed, the girl did not notice anything around her. She was convinced that she remembered her past life and that there, in another time, she lived across the sea in the land of the pharaohs. Moreover, Dorothy constantly recounted amazing details of her life as an Egyptian priestess. That woman's name was Bentreshit. She lived and served at the court of Pharaoh Seti.

One day the girl saw old images of the ancient Temple of Seti. Looking at them, Dorothy stated that she had already been there and that this place was her home. She still could not understand where the garden that surrounded the temple on all sides had gone. And she was convinced that thousands of years ago there were many trees there.

The parents almost went crazy because of such radical changes in their daughter's behavior. And finally, we decided to take our four-year-old child to the British Museum. After that it only got worse. Upon entering the Egyptian hall, the child became even more strange. She began running around the statues, kissing the feet of the giant marble statues of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. Finally, the girl found a glass sarcophagus with a mummy and settled right on it, refusing to go further. The parents tried to take the child away from this place, but she suddenly shouted in a strange, changed voice: “Leave me, these are my people!” The parents must have been terrified.

At the age of fifteen, Dorothy began studying Egyptian history. And then Pharaoh Seti I began to come to her in a dream. According to the woman’s recollections, one night she woke up from the feeling that something heavy was pressing on her chest. She opened her eyes and met the gaze of the pharaoh. He did not forget her even after three thousand years. “I was amazed and at the same time incredibly happy,” she would write later. - It was a feeling of fulfillment of a long-cherished desire. And then he tore my nightgown from collar to hem.”

From these meetings in lucid dreams, her memories of her past life became even more vivid. Her centuries-old memory was gradually returning to her. The dreams were supplemented by knowledge gained from books, and, in the end, Dorothy decided to renounce Christianity and instead accept the old polytheistic religion of Ancient Egypt.

Dorothy had an incredible ability to study ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. She spent a lot of time at the British Museum, impressing her teachers. And to all their questions about this she answered that she had not started learning a new language, but was only gradually remembering everything that she had forgotten a long time ago.

In 1932, together with her husband, the Egyptian student Imam Abdel Magid, whom she met in England, Dorothy moved to live in Egypt. When she first set foot on this earth, the first thing she did was kneel down and kiss the soil under her feet, saying that she was finally at home. She came to stay forever.

Soon the young woman gave birth to a son, whom, of course, she named Seti. That is why her own middle name became Omm Seti, which translated from Egyptian means “mother of Seti.”

For many years, Dorothy tried very hard to remember her past life, piece by piece piecing together a thousand-year-old puzzle - the fate of Bentreshit. The spirit of Gor-Ra helped her decipher all the secrets. From him the woman learned that the Egyptian Bentreshit had been raised from the age of three in the Temple of Seti in Abydos. She was left near the temple by her father, a soldier who could not take care of the child. The girl's mother, a fruit seller, died early.

During her life in the temple of Abydos, she became a priestess and "sacred virgin", taking a vow of celibacy. There, a 14-year-old girl first met the living embodiment of God - Pharaoh Seti I, who at that time was 53 years old. They fell in love with each other. Having become the pharaoh's mistress, Bentreshit became pregnant.

Unfortunately, happy love very often has a tragic ending. Soon after she found out about her pregnancy, the high priest of the temple told Bentreshit that an unborn child was a great crime against the goddess Isis, and that the child would cause her anger, and the pharaoh would have a lot of trouble from it.

I found two versions of what happened next on the Internet. According to the first, beside herself with grief and despair, the pregnant Bentreshit committed suicide. The second says that the young woman gave birth to a son for the pharaoh, but the happiness of the lovers was short-lived. Seti I died while hunting crocodiles. And after that, the priests took out all their anger on the innocent victim: they killed the pharaoh’s little son, considering him the culprit of all the troubles, and threw the woman into a dungeon, where she died of disease...

Let's go back to our time. In 1956, Dorothy managed to fulfill her dream. After separating from her husband, she moved to Abydos and began helping archaeologists in their research. She really wanted not so much to test her knowledge as to make sure that the stories she told were not mere fiction. After all, if Dorothy lived on this earth thousands of years ago, then she certainly must have remembered some important details.

One day, Dorothy went to the temple of Seti to see the chief inspector of the antiquities department, who, knowing about the history of Omm Seti, decided to test her knowledge and make sure of the truthfulness or untruthfulness of her words. He really wanted to prove that the woman was lying. In complete darkness, Dorothy was led to a certain wall painting in the temple. The boss asked her to describe the picture according to her memories. Her answer amazed everyone present.

What is noteworthy is that the temple paintings and symbols that Dorothy spoke about with such confidence were not known. That is, she could not read about them anywhere. Information about them was not published even in Egypt itself. Dorothy not only answered all the questions correctly, but also told the head of the department many interesting things that the researchers were able to discover only later - precisely thanks to her stories.

Dorothy's story became even more famous when she began helping during excavations and research on ancient Egyptian monuments. The woman translated the most complex works of art - texts that were too tough for even seasoned archaeologists and linguists. Her knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language greatly helped the scientists excavating at Abydos.

When it came to ancient Egyptian history, many researchers paid close attention to Omm Seti's stories. One of them is a world-famous scientist, British Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen. The researcher did not openly admit this, probably for fear of being booed in the scientific community. However, a number of written sources contain indirect evidence that the scientist listened to Dorothy's words.

As strange as it may sound, when Nicholas Reeves began searching for the lost tomb of Queen Nefertiti, he also took into account her visions. According to Idi, the queen’s tomb is located in the Valley of the Kings:

“One day I asked His Majesty where this grave was, and he said to me: “Why do you need to know this?” I replied that I wanted this place to be excavated. And he said, “No, you shouldn’t. We don’t want anything else to become known about this family.” But he told me the approximate location. She rests in the Valley of the Kings, very close to the tomb of Tutankhamun. But in such a place that no one can guess that this is the queen’s grave. Apparently, that’s the only reason she’s still intact” (laughs).

Bentreshit remembered the son of Seti I, the future pharaoh Ramses. Every time Dorothy came to the temple, she heard his footsteps - a restless boy running along the corridors.

Every morning Dorothy went to the temple to pray. On the birthdays of Isis and Osiris, she held meal ceremonies, when beer, wine and bread were brought to the temple - just like thousands of years ago.

“Magic in Ancient Egypt was elevated to the rank of science,” she wrote. - It was real magic. And she worked."

It should not be assumed that Dorothy's entire contribution consisted of constant reminiscences and work as a tour guide. She is the author and co-author of many publications on the history of Ancient Egypt. Contemporaries noted her professional and business qualities. The activities of the Omm Network have been highly praised by the British and Egyptian authorities. In particular, the British Archaeological Society awarded her a pension, and the president of her beloved country awarded her the Order of Merit for Egypt. She was respected by everyone - from scientists to tourists and local residents. "Guardian Angel of Egyptology" - that's what Dorothy Eady was called.

Dorothy died on April 21, 1981. She was buried near the Temple of Seti at Abydos. In addition to her scientific works, Omm Sethi left behind diaries, which she kept from school until the end of her life. Some of them have not yet been published... Only Dorothy’s colleague and close friend, Dr. Hanni el-Zaini, to whom Mrs. Magid bequeathed her notes, knows what else is hidden in the pages yellowed by time.